The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.
Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor | |
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![]() The 2023 recipient: Paul Giamatti | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Houston Film Critics Society |
First awarded | Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood (2007) |
Currently held by | Paul Giamatti The Holdovers (2023) |
Website | houstonfilmcritics |
Winners edit
- † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
- ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Actor
2000s edit
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
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2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
Casey Affleck | Gone Baby Gone | Patrick Kenzie | |
George Clooney ‡ | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton | |
Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild | Chris McCandless | |
Viggo Mortensen ‡ | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin | |
2008 | Sean Penn † | Milk | Harvey Milk |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road | Frank Wheeler | |
Richard Jenkins ‡ | The Visitor | Walter Vale | |
Frank Langella ‡ | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon | |
Brad Pitt ‡ | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Benjamin Button | |
Mickey Rourke ‡ | The Wrestler | Randy "The Ram" Robinson | |
2009 | George Clooney ‡ | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
Jeff Bridges † | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake | |
Morgan Freeman ‡ | Invictus | Nelson Mandela | |
Viggo Mortensen | The Road | Man | |
Jeremy Renner ‡ | The Hurt Locker | Sergeant First Class William James |
2010s edit
2020s edit
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
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2020 | Riz Ahmed ‡ | Sound of Metal | Ruben |
Chadwick Boseman ‡ | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
Anthony Hopkins † | The Father | Anthony | |
Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul | |
Steven Yeun ‡ | Minari | Jacob Yi | |
2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
Peter Dinklage | Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
Andrew Garfield ‡ | tick, tick... BOOM! | Jonathan Larson | |
Will Smith † | King Richard | Richard Williams | |
Denzel Washington ‡ | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth | |
2022 | Colin Farrell ‡ | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
Austin Butler ‡ | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
Tom Cruise | Top Gun: Maverick | Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell | |
Brendan Fraser † | The Whale | Charlie | |
Jeremy Pope | The Inspection | Ellis French | |
2023 | Paul Giamatti ‡ | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Killers of the Flower Moon | Ernest Burkhart | |
Cillian Murphy ‡ | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam | |
Jeffrey Wright ‡ | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison |